For energy, workers would heat coal to extreme temperatures and then pour oil over them.

"The oil made a steam and that was captured, which was a gas, it was captured, held in storage tanks and put in compressors and put in pipelines and it serves streetlights and heating for downtown Albany," says Assistant General Manager of Operations Keith Goodin.

The plant was closed in 1948 and they began dismantling the it in 1961.